ABSTRACT
I think there hath been no one thing more prejudicial to the service of Ireland, than the number of water-casting physicians, that have taken upon them to look into the state of Ireland, to spy out the diseases and to inform at random ... sometimes for their own gain, sometime to help their friends, sometimes to hurt their foes, sometimes for love, sometimes for hate, and some that would still be prescribing of medicines, that were utterly ignorant from whence the sickness grew.1
